Talk:Symptomatic treatment

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Palliative care
Hi. Is it wrong to Redirect this article to Palliative care?? -- PHoBiA (talk) 14:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Stedman's defines a symptomatic treatment as: "therapy aimed at relieving symptoms without necessarily affecting the basic underlying cause(s) of the symptoms".

This is in disagreement with the first sentence of the Wiki entry, which says "Symptomatic treatment is any medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not its cause, i.e., its etiology."

Stedman's defines a symptomatic treatment based on the 'aim of the treatment' while the Wiki entry defines a symptomatic treatment based on the consequences of the treatment.

Stedman's definition does not preclude the treatment affecting the underlying cause, simply that it is not the intent. For example, a painkiller taken for a headache might not address the cause, but it might reduce the stress on the patient, even by placebo effect, and cure the illness, or tide the patient over until the cause is gone, or might enable the patient, to regain their focus and address the cause. It's not simple.

The statement that "symptomatic treatment is the only one available so far" is a unnecessarily constraining. There can be many symptomatic treatments for any illness, and more if the illness has more than one symptom. --Tracychess (talk) 01:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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Rerouting Palliative Treatment Here Instead of Palliative Care
Hello,

I wanted to discuss the rerouting of the keyword "palliative treatment" to this "symptomatic treatment" page instead of "palliative care" for two reasons. 1) Palliative care is a field of medicine that relates to terminal illness where efforts to prolong life are arrested and the focus is placed on quality of life while palliative treatments are treatment that can only alleviate symptoms, they cannot alter the natural history of disease. Therefore, linking palliative treatments to palliative care is too specific as other treatments for diseases that are not terminal could be classified as a palliative treatment as well. 2) This "symptomatic treatment" page has a link to palliative care in the scenario where an individual is looking for more of that terminal illness connotation. Therefore, if "palliative treatment" was rerouted here, readers will get both the general and terminal illness information instead of only the terminal illness information. Please let me know what you think! Thank you for your time.

Trit6611 (talk) 18:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * * Support – yes, changing the redirect from palliative care to symptomatic treatment seems like a good move. The word palliative is increasingly associated with the end-of-life care, but it has a separate meaning that would be respected better by changing the redirect.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 18:29, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Psychosomatic Medicines
Mr Vallami LOP18 (talk) 05:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)